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Burnout Crash! isn’t a driving game. It may have cars. It may have roads. But at its core, Criterion’s first DLC project is a pinball game in the guise of unmitigated vehicular destruction. It’s also a title that’s been a long time coming.

It originally began on the Wii and the driving force behind the idea was that players could draw their own tracks, but Criterion said it wasn’t as fun as they expected. The studio discovered that the real fun came from the impact in intersections. They went from a game that was all about user-generated content and turned it into one that was more level-based and inspired by old-school pinball.